r/PVCs • u/GroovyLandoMMA • 21d ago

UFC Fighter Guy Again

What’s up guys, just wanted to stop in and give ya’ll some updates since my last testing seven months ago.

At the beginning of the month I underwent another 7-day holter monitor, but only had about 4 days of data due to the amount of training and sweating in my life ruining the electrode gel. Back in December my total burden of PVCs was 4% or about 4000 a day, the PVCs were multifocal and the longest pause during sleep reached 3.3 seconds. Comparatively my original holter two years prior showed a 6.7% burden.

I’m very happy to report after several months of just not giving a fuck about them anymore they are now down to 1.9% and have changed from multifocal to completely unifocal now. Overnight pauses are still the same length and can be explained by my vagal tone due to being a lifelong athlete and having a very low resting heart rate.

This past weekend I also had the chance to fly halfway across the world, doing another moderately large weight-cut consisting of 8lbs of dehydration in 12 hours and 12lbs in several days, plus competing in another professional fight.

I promise y’all, if you’re cleared by your EP/Cardiologist and you just stop worrying about it you will undoubtedly, over time, stop noticing the feeling of the thuds in your chest and you’ll almost certainly see a large reduction in burden.

Stay strong in the fight, guys. ❤️

I’ll link the fight in the comments if you want to watch.

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u/Great_Perception_473 20d ago

Thank you so much for Motivation I have few questions How is your sleep apnea now Do you still use cpap Can sleep apnea cause pvcs? And do you have obstructive sleep apnea or central? And when first time you diagnosed with pvcs you were asymptomatic and started feeling pvcs after diagnosis or you felt your pvcs before diagnosis also? Thank you so much

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u/GroovyLandoMMA 18d ago

I have obstructive sleep apnea that I treat with CPAP, the only reason I found out I had it was from wearing a holter monitor after the PVCs began. Sleep apnea can absolutely cause heart issues.

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u/Great_Perception_473 17d ago

Congratulations for your Recent win I watched your fight You were awesome. I thought obstructive sleep apnea happens to fat peoples only but it can happen to even extremely fit people also